3 forum boats went walkies today......

I was helping Lisa this morning (well drinking her tea anyway). The Achilles has a pushpit right round the stern and it is completely mangled and the fixings have ripped the gelcoat out. Only one stanchion snapped. Rigging missed the boat next door (which also blew over) and there is just a small scatch on the paint hardly worth touching up. Something to be said for old boats. Repairs must be near to value though.

I wondered if her insurers might claim against the yard for not chocking it adequately.
 
MoodySabre said:
I was helping Lisa this morning (well drinking her tea anyway). The Achilles has a pushpit right round the stern and it is completely mangled and the fixings have ripped the gelcoat out. Only one stanchion snapped. Rigging missed the boat next door (which also blew over) and there is just a small scatch on the paint hardly worth touching up. Something to be said for old boats. Repairs must be near to value though.

I wondered if her insurers might claim against the yard for not chocking it adequately.
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When my RHOD blew over in the Oct 2002 storm my insurers (Navigators) did just that successfully. MDL manager at first tried to claim that it was my fault that the boat had blown over, but they had laid it up as they had every year. Navigators treated that idea with derision and got the whole repair cost back and refunded my excess which I had to pay out pending their claim against MDL's insurers. Incidentally it triggered a rash of cross bracing on all the timber props at Woolverstone, and I think the following year they insisted on cradles for all yachts.
 
MoodySabre said:
I was helping Lisa this morning (well drinking her tea anyway). The Achilles has a pushpit right round the stern and it is completely mangled and the fixings have ripped the gelcoat out. Only one stanchion snapped. Rigging missed the boat next door (which also blew over) and there is just a small scatch on the paint hardly worth touching up. Something to be said for old boats. Repairs must be near to value though.

I wondered if her insurers might claim against the yard for not chocking it adequately.
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oh hell, sounds bad :(

I suspect we'll see the bilge keelers sporting props all round like the fin keelers in future although it was an unusual event and something that hasn't previously been a problem in that yard

I suspect if Brigantia had been ashore, as she might well have been if we hadn't sold her, she would probably have gone over too
 
Erbas said:
oh hell, sounds bad :(

I suspect we'll see the bilge keelers sporting props all round like the fin keelers in future although it was an unusual event and something that hasn't previously been a problem in that yard

I suspect if Brigantia had been ashore, as she might well have been if we hadn't sold her, she would probably have gone over too
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being a bit slow, i have just realised who you are :o
 
christ knows what my excuse is then. damn that random black hair that just keeps growing out of my chin.
anyway.
here be some pics.
oh bugger it. i just cant figure out how toupload pics. nevermind, those on fb can see them on my page.
 
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ChattingLil said:
ooh ta.
whenever I try to load photos they get rejected for being too big.
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In Photobucket click on the Upload. A box appears and in the top right hand corner is a cog symbol. Click on that and set your upload size to 640x480 and all pics will then be that size and right for the form. If you use Firefox then add the uploader so one right click and it goes to photobucket automatically - that's how I used your pics off FB.
 
MoodySabre said:
In Photobucket click on the Upload. A box appears and in the top right hand corner is a cog symbol. Click on that and set your upload size to 640x480 and all pics will then be that size and right for the form. If you use Firefox then add the uploader so one right click and it goes to photobucket automatically - that's how I used your pics off FB.
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You youngsters are so 'Techie' ;)
 
Sad to relate - Glayva has some hull damage but not pierced, but the mast is kinked, needs a new one. At least she is back in the cradle now.
 
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